Stats
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Just curious about the stats (inclusion of visits from Facebook and LinkedIn). On any given day there can be 50-100 visits from these venues, however the stats will only show 4-5.
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For details see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ and here Views and Visitors https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#views-and-visitors and do note that both the views and viewers and views by country https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#views-by-country take hours to update.
Our stats are page view stats. If I visit your blog and click into 10 posts that will be recorded as 1 visitor and 10 page views. But please do not assume that everyone who clicks a follow, like, share, reblog or comment link actually reads the post on your blog because odds are they may not.
Follow, like, share, reblog or comment clicks are not page views. In fact, follows, likes, shares, comments and reblogs are completely misleading when you are talking about page view stats.
Your followers and anyone with a WordPress.com/Gravatar account who is logged into WordPress.com can “follow” your blog, “like”, “share” and “reblog” your posts and “comment” in several locations such as the Reader, without ever clicking into your blog and creating a single page view stat. Subscribers control how frequently they receive your posts (instantly, daily, weekly) and can comment without clicking into the blog.
Logged in visitors using a mobile can read the full post without creating a page view stat. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpresscom-reader-show-full-text?replies=31#post-1373606
You can control the length of the entry sent out on your RSS feed here Dashboard > Settings > Reading. Choose the “summary” setting for your RSS feed rather than to “full text”. That will compel followers who are not using mobiles to click into the blog to read the full post which will create a page view stat.
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WordPress.COM stats reflect only the stats that are created when people click into your site. They do not reflect any shares that were made on Facebook or Linkedin sites as that information is not provided to wordpress.COM.
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Please see: Referrers
https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#referrers
The referrers section lists other blogs, web sites, and search engines that link to your blog. A view is associated with a referrer a visitor lands on a URL on your site after clicking a link on the referrer’s site. -
Thank you very much for your reply. You may have answered this and I just didn’t understand it.
On one day, I created a post in WordPress that was also displayed in LinkedIn. When I checked the stats on LinkedIn, there 120 who viewed the post in 24 hours, however WordPress showed only 5 views. If someone views the post in LinkedIn, it redirects them to WordPress. Shouldn’t the stats on WordPress be much higher, or is it impossible for WordPress to capture those views? Not trying to make a big deal about this, but just curious if there is something I should be doing differently to better reflect the view counts. If you feel you have already answered this question and I just didn’t “get it”, then no reply is necessary. Thank you!
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